Libertarian activist Adam Kokesh, who admitsto a history of mental instability and post-traumatic stress disorder, is calling for an armed march on Washington, D.C., to protest against tyranny. <\/p>\n
Kokesh proposed a march with loaded rifles from Virginia in D.C. on July 4. D.C. police have promised to block the march from crossing into Washington. <\/p>\n
This is now a call for mass civil disobedience on July 4th anywhere in Washington, D.C., he wrote on a Facebook page for the event. We will march with rifles loaded & slung across our backs to put the government on notice that we will not be intimidated & cower in submission to tyranny. <\/p>\n
Kokesh, 31, who served as a non-commissioned officer in the Marines and reservist, wrote a 2005 college thesis entitled Hot, Dirty, and Dangerous: Seven Months of Civil and Not-So-Civil Affairs In And Around Fallujah. <\/p>\n
He mentions PTSD in the thesis, writing I had a number of anxiety attacks those first few days back [from Iraq]. <\/p>\n
I didnt feel comfortable getting drunk, and the crowds made me nervous. When dealing with crowds in Iraq, I was always armed and I always had someone watching my back, usually with a machine gun. A cardinal rule for interacting with crowds was to never let anyone get behind you, Kokesh wrote. We had all heard the horror story of a Marine who was killed with his own pistol. When crowds got close around me I would often just leave one hand on my pistol and let my rifle dangle on the sling in front of me. <\/p>\n
Used to getting his way, Kokesh eventually got his college to let him carry a gun to class, despite its firearms policy. <\/p>\n
Every time someone bumped into me from behind at a party I instinctively reached down for my pistol and had a moment of awkward panic before realizing that I was being absurd, he wrote in his thesis. I had developed such a strong habit of waking up two or three minutes before my alarm that I often woke up thinking I had to be somewhere. I was so used to being on guard when in public that it was hard to truly relax at first. <\/p>\n
The idea of loaded weapons at a protest march was met with disdain from pro-gun groups. <\/p>\n
Thats a good way to provoke something, and thats not likely to end well, said Larry Pratt, executive director of Gun Owners of America. <\/p>\n
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